Nepal adops fast track model for new constitution

Kathmandu: Nepal’s Constituent Assembly, is preparing to adopt a fast-track model to promulgate a new constitution for the country within the next 11 months.
Many procedural hassles will also be removed from the assembly rules of procedure this time. Parties have pledged to deliver a new constitution within a year and one month has already elapsed since the first meeting of the Assembly on January 22nd.
A cross-party committee of the assembly entrusted to prepare new rules has proposed formation of only five committees for the purpose of writing a new constitution.

“A cross-party committee inside the Constituent Assembly will prepare a report about the agreed and contentious issues related to a new constitution and present it to the Constituent Assembly,” said Laxman Lal Karna, a lawmaker involved in preparing the rules of procedure.